Holder for pens, pencils, or the like.



'Patented Nov. 25, |902.; c.`F. WALTER.

HDLDER FOR PENS, PB NCILS, UBTHVE LIKE.

' (Application medJan. 29, 1902.)

(No. Mudel.)

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Nrrnn STATES CHARLES F. WALTER, OF NEW YORIQN. Y.

HOLDER FOR PENS, PENCILS, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,538, dated November 25, 1'902.

Application tiled January 29, 1902. Serial. No. 91,780. (No model.)

`.To cir/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. WALTER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Holder for Pens, Pencils, or the Like, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved holder for pens, pencils, and the like adapted to be conveniently fastened to a vest or other garment or to the inside `ot a pocket to allow the wearer of the garment to readily insert and securely hold a pen, pencil, or other article and to permit convenient removal of `the article whenever `it is desired to do so.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as

`will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is ka transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of K the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4

is a face view of the blank for forming the retaining-ring and its plate.

The holder consists, essentially, of a split ringA and an attaching device B, adapted to engage the garment material and securely fasten the holder in position on the garment, the ring A projecting horizontally from the said attaching device for receiving a pen, pencil, or a like article. The ring A is made from a piece of iiat steel or like spring metal and extends integrally at one end from the edge of the middle portion A' of a plate A2, fastened by solder or other means to the front yface of the plate B' of the attaching device B,

the latter being provided at its rear face with a double pin B2 for engaging the garment material, the points of the pin B2 being sprung :into retaining-lugs B3 after their passage through the material.

As shown, the double pinB2 is hinged at its middle on the upper end of the plate B', and the retaining-lugs B3 are located at the lower corners of the said plate to receive the points of the pin, as above described.

The middle portion A of the plate A2 is somewhat set OEE in a forward direction to form with the plate B' a guideway for the passage of the free end of the strip which forms the ring, the said free end overlapping the fixed end of the ring a considerable distance and on the outside thereof, so as to leave the opening of the ring completely unobstructed for the convenient insertion of a pen, pencil, or like article.

In practice the inner diameter. of the ring is somewhat less than the diameter of the pen, pencil, or like article to be inserted, so that when the article is forced down into the ring the latter readily expands or opens, owing to its resiliencyand the unobstructed movement of the free end of the ring. Now when the article is inserted by the user the resiliency Vof the ring causes the latter to close tightly on the peripheral face of the inserted article to securely clamp the latter in position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl l. A holder for pencils and the like, consisting of a plate provided with retaining-lu gs at its lower end, a double pin hinged to the upper end of the plate, and a second plate secured to the first plate and provided at its center with an odset forming with said rst plate a guideway, and at one edge of the offset portion with a liexible strip which is bent into a ring with its free end passing through the guideway and overlapping the fixed end on the outside thereof, as set forth.

2. A holder, for pencils and the like, com prising a plate provided with means for attaching it to a garment, a second plate secured to the first plate and provided at its center with an ottset forming with the said first plate a guideway, and at one edge of the offset portion with a iiexible strip which is bent into a ring with its free end passing through the guideway and overlapping the fixed end on the outside thereof, as set forth.

3. A holder for pencils and the like, comprising an attaching device provided on its IOO outer face at about its center With an offset name to this specication in the presence of forming a gudeway, and With a flexible strip two subscribing Witnesses. projeotin0r from one ede said strip bein@ bent intoba. ring and hairg its end passe CHARLES F WALTER' 5 through the guideway and overlapping the Witnesses:

fixed ond. on the outside thereof, as sot forth. THEO. G. HOSTER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL. 

